This weekLego day at the library
Lego Day at the Shelby County Public Library, 309 8th St., will be today. The movie is from 10 to 11:45 a.m. and then an hour of making cool things with Legos after that. For more information, contact 633-3803 or youthservices@scplibrary.net.Homemakers book club

This weekRocket service day
The Shelby County High School Rockets will have service days for students. Senior service day will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today to receive parking permits, and get senior portraits, gap and gown information for graduation from Balfour. Junior service day will be 9 a.m. to noon on July 30 to get parking permits and lockers.Publisher computer class at JCTC

Shelbyville native Michael Biagi has been selected to serve as the next Executive Director of the Kentucky Republican Party.

The decision was made just after the organization’s Chairman and Executive Director Steve Robertson announced that he would be stepping down from the position next month to take a job with a public affairs firm in Lexington.

Robertson will stay on as an unpaid chairman of the state party until after the November general election.

It’s time to dust of your best boots and break out your finer threads again because the town is saddling up for the Shelbyville Horse Show at the Shelby County Fairgrounds.

“The competition will be very strong, it always is,” said R.H. Bennett, the Shelbyville Horse Show manager. “We have a lot more quality than we do quantity, and I expect that most of the wins here are either current world’s champions or will go on to win the world champions.”

Surrounded by death and destruction in the form of rushing floodwaters and debris from shattered homes and lives in Paintsville last week, two Shelby County residents found comfort in the nobility of the human spirit.

“What was amazing to me is that even though they were the ones who were the victims, they were trying to help us,” said Christy Coleman, a physician’s assistant with Stonecrest Family Medicine.

A couple of would-be Wright Elementary students are gearing up to start back to school at Heritage Elementary this fall due to a correction to the bus routes.

The Shelby County Board of Education Thursday will consider redistricting a portion of Cedarmore Road, a change that SCPS Public Relations Coordinator Ryan Allan said will clear up an overlapping bus route.

“We have two families that we were having to send an extra bus on a road that there was already a bus on,” Allan said. “We already have a bus on that road that goes to Heritage.”